Improvement in bale-ties



l. N. SMITH@ Bale-Ties.

Patented Nov. 17,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

J. NOTTINGHAM SMITH, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,032, dated November17,1874; application tiled July 2e, 1814.

VState of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Bale-Bands; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full andexact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings,

making a part of this specication.

My invention has for its object to provide a band for baling which shallrequire no independent buckle or tying device, but be capable ofself-fastening; and to this end my invention consists of a bale-bandformed of approximately a suitable length, and having the ends thereofso fashioned that they may be in terlocked and fastened, as will behereinafter more fully set forth.

To enable those skilled to fully understand my invention, I will proceedto describe the same, referring by letters to the accompanying drawing,in Which- Figure l represents a perspective view of a band with its endsadapted to be interlocked and fastened; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectionof a band with the ends interlocked and fastened; and Fig. 3 is atransverse section taken at the line a: a' of FigQZ.

Similar letters indicate like parts in the several iigures.

A is a band of suitable sheet metal, rolled to approximately the properlength. One end, B, is left in the usual way, while the other is formedwith two wings, O C, and a projection, D. The end B is bent over at thedotted line a a to form a loop, and the projection D is bent over on theline b b in the same direction,

forming a loop corresponding in shape and length to the loop formed onthe end B.

The band being around the bale while un der pressure, the looped endsare passed laterally one within the other, when the wings C C are bentover by any suitable instrument, as indicated by dotted lines d d, so asto confine the looped ends securely together, and thus prevent them frompulling apart by the expansive force of the bale.

The bale-band may have the loop at the Winged end formed either beforeor after the band is placed around the bale. After the band is placedaround the bale, if found to be too long, the end B may be eut off atany required distance, and bent over, as described, to form the loop.

I do not wish to confine myself to the exact construction or designshown, as it may be varied without departing from the spirit of myinvention, the gist of which rests in the idea of having the band andtie formed in one and the same piece.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The bale-band A, provided with solid interlocking ends B D andconfining-Wings C C, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbeforeset forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24th dayof July, 1874.

J. NOTTINGHAM SMITH. [L. s]

In presence of- W. MEURHEID, W. L. RoWE.

